Aramco begins operations at Jafurah and Tanajib to boost gas output

Aramco has announced the commencement of accumulation astatine the Jafurah unconventional state tract and the commencement of operations astatine the Tanajib Gas Plant successful Saudi Arabia.

The developments signifier portion of Aramco’s program to boost income state accumulation capableness by astir 80% by 2030, compared to 2021 levels. The program targets astir six cardinal barrels of lipid equivalent per time from full state and associated liquids.

Aramco expects these projects to make further operating currency travel of $12bn–15bn successful 2030, depending connected aboriginal income state request and liquids prices.

Production of the archetypal unconventional shale state astatine Jafurah commenced successful December 2025. Jafurah covers an country of 17,000km² and holds an estimated 229 trillion modular cubic feet (tscf) of earthy state and 75 cardinal banal vessel barrels (bstb) of condensate.

By 2030, the tract aims to supply 2 cardinal modular cubic feet per time (bscf/d) of income gas, 420 cardinal modular cubic feet of ethane per time and astir 630,000 barrels of high-value liquids daily. Technology has played a cardinal relation astatine Jafurah, contributing to reduced drilling and stimulation costs and higher good productivity.

Operations astatine Tanajib Gas Plant besides began successful December 2025. The facility, designed for integer integration and operational efficiency, processes associated earthy state from the Marjan and Zuluf offshore oilfields.

Aramco expects the works to scope a earthy state processing capableness of 2.6bscf/d successful 2026. The start-up astatine Tanajib coincided with the motorboat of accumulation astatine Aramco’s Marjan crude lipid increment.

Aramco president and CEO Amin Nasser said: “Jafurah and Tanajib importantly fortify Aramco’s state portfolio and grow our capableness astatine scale. These projects are a large measurement guardant for our institution and for the kingdom’s vigor future.

“Gas is cardinal to our semipermanent maturation strategy. It is expected to make important earnings, conscionable rising home demand, enactment improvement crossed cardinal sectors and present important volumes of high-value liquids.

“Together, these investments marque Aramco stronger, much diversified and amended positioned to present sustained worth to our shareholders. We worth the continued enactment and enactment of the Ministry of Energy successful advancing these strategical projects.”

The enlargement successful state accumulation is acceptable to enactment home request arsenic good arsenic nationalist industries including petrochemicals and AI.

Aramco said that it volition besides assistance conscionable objectives specified arsenic diversifying Saudi Arabia’s vigor premix for energy production, advancing the country’s liquid substance displacement programme, supporting vigor information goals and contributing to the people of net-zero emissions by 2060.